Hello Everyone!,
Thank you for having this wonderful forum full of lots of knowledge about BP's. I have a strange question. I got my BP back in September and she has always eaten like a champ. She was born last August so she is still quite young. Anyway I have up to this point been feeding her small mice. The one's I buy in a pack are always white in color. She has grown a good bit so I bought a pack of medium sized mice and the sizing looked ok for her to eat. Anyway all of the mice that are in the medium size are brown. I tried to give her one the other day on the same schedule and with the same procedure I always have. She sniffed it a few times with her tongue but wouldn't take it. So I waited a day and tried again with another brown mouse and had the same result. I was getting a bit worried so I decided today to try one of the small white mice that I had left over from the before. No sooner than I had put the mouse in her tank with the forceps she snatched it and had it in the death grip and had gulped it down within a few minutes. So I'm wondering if the color of the mice is what made the difference or if it could be something else? I bought all the F/T mice at the same location. Thanks for the help everyone. Have a good day.